The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh (MCC), also known as Chandigarh Municipal Corporation, is the civic body that governs the city of Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana.

History The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh, India was formed within the Union Territory of Chandigarh under the Punjab Municipal Corporation Act in 1976. The corporation was later extended to the union territory, Chandigarh, by the Punjab Municipal Corporation Law (Extension to Chandigarh) Act, 1994 (Act No.45 of 1994), which came into effect on 24 May 1994. Under a provision of Section 47 of the act, M.P. Tyagi was appointed as the first Commissioner of the Corporation w.e.f. on 19 June 1995. Tyagi continued to exercise mayoral powers until 23 December 1994, when the first meeting of the elected body of the Corporation was held. Tyagi was succeeded as Commissioner by S.K. Gathwal on 8 August 1996.

In the Municipal Corporation, BJP candidate Arun Sood defeated Congress' Mukesh Bassi by 21–15 votes for the post of Mayor, while BJP's Davesh Moudgil and SAD's Hardeep Singh defeated Congress' Darshan Garg and Gurbax Rawat for the posts of Sr. Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor, respectively, in the Municipal Corporation's mayoral polls in January 2016.

After the 2016 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election in January 2017, BJP's Asha Kumari Jaswal was elected as the mayor, BJP's Rajesh Kumar Gupta and Anil Dubey were elected as senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor respectively. In January 2019, Mayor elections, BJP candidate Rajesh Kumar Kalia was elected as the Mayor by defeating the independent candidate Satish Kainth by securing 16 votes out of the total 27 votes.

Ravi Kant Sharma served as Mayor of Chandigarh till 2021 upon succeeding Raj Bala Malik.

2021 Chandigarh Municipal Corporation election was held on 24 December 2021. Sarbjit Kaur was elected as the Mayor of the civic body after the elections.

List of mayors The mayor is the head of the Municipal Corporation. Of the five-year term of the Municipal Corporation, Office of the Mayor, for the first and fourth years, is reserved for women.

S. No. Name Term Party 1. Kamla Sharma 23 December 1996 – 22 December 1997 2. Gian Chand Gupta 23 December 1997 – 22 December 1998 3. Kewal Krishan Addiwal 23 December 1998 – 22 December 1999 4. Shanta Hit Abhilashi 23 December 1999 – 22 December 2000 5. Raj Kumar Goyal 23 December 2000 – 21 July 2001 6. Gurcharan Dass (acting) 22 July 2001 – 17 August 2001 7. Harjinder Kaur 18 August 2001 – 22 December 2001 8. Lalit Joshi 1 January 2002 – 31 December 200 9. Subhash Chawla 1 January 2003 – 31 December 2003 10. Kamlesh 1 January 2004 – 31 December 2004 11. Anu Chatrath 1 January 2005 – 31 December 2005 12. Surinder Singh 1 January 2006 – 31 December 2006 (7). Harjinder Kaur 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2007 13. Pardeep Chhabra 1 January 2008 – 31 December 2008 (10). Kamlesh 1 January 2009 – 31 December 2009 (11). Anu Chatrath 1 January 2010 – 31 December 2010 14. Ravinder Pal Singh 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2011 15. Raj Bala Malik 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2012 (9). Subhash Chawla 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2013 16. Harphool Chander Kalyan 1 January 2014 – 5 January 2015 17. Poonam Sharma 6 January 2015 – 7 January 2016 18. Arun Sood 8 January 2016 – 31 December 2016 19. Asha Kumari Jaswal 12 January 2017 – 8 January 2018 20. Davesh Moudgil 9 January 2018 – 18 January 2019 21. Rajesh Kumar Kalia 19 January 2019 – 9 January 2020 22. Rajbala Malik 10 January 2020 – 7 January 2021 23. Ravi Kant Sharma 8 January 2021 – 7 January 2022 24. Sarabjit Kaur 8 January 2022 – 16 January 2023 25. Anup Gupta 17 January 2023 – 30 January 2024 26. Manoj Sonkar 30 January 2024 – 18 February 2024 27. Kuldeep Kumar 20 February 2024 - 30 January 2025 28. Harpreet Kaur Babla 30 January 2025 – 29 January 2026 29. Saurabh Joshi 29 January 2026 – Incumbent

Composition According to the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh's website, the Corporation is composed of the following members: 1"Members to be directly elected, representing wards."352"Members with voting rights to be nominated by the Administrator, from amongst the people who are eminent of distinguished in public affairs or those who have special knowledge or practical experience in respect of municipal administration."103"The Member of the House of the people representing the constituency which comprises wholly or partly, the Municipal Area, with the right to vote. (Member of Parliament from Chandigarh)"1

Administration The commissioner is the apex of the municipal administrative hierarchy that runs its administration. He is a senior government official (usually an I.A.S officer) and is appointed by the Central government. He is the chief executive officer who is responsible for the passing and implementation of the annual municipal corporation budget, its policies and programmes. All personnel of the municipal corporation work under the commissioner's supervision and control.

The current municipal commissioner of the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh is Amit Kumar.

Chandigarh being a city-state, and a Union Territory does not have a legislative assembly of its own, even though it hosts the legislative assemblies of two states Punjab & Haryana, being a common capital of both states. It has its own Municipal Corporation (MCC), which acts as the local governing authority of the City Beautiful (Chandigarh). The MCC is one of the most powerful local authorities in the Republic of India as it serves both as a regional and local authority.

Departments Source: +Accounts BranchEngineering BranchParking BranchAgenda BranchEstablishment BranchPublic Health BranchArchitecture BranchEstate BranchPublic Relation BranchB&R BranchFire & Rescue Services BranchRTI BranchBooking BranchHorticulture & Electrical BranchRural BranchBuilding BranchIT BranchSolid Waste Management (SWM)Colony BranchLegal BranchTax BranchComplaint & Grievance BranchLicensing BranchVendor CellDeendayal Antyodaya Yojana National Urban Livelihoods Mission (Day-NULM)Medical Officer of Health (MOH)Enforcement BranchMonitoring Branch

Composition of MCC House

Civic utilities The prime responsibilities of the civic body are to ensure cleanliness and sanitation in the city, illumination of street lights, maintenance of parks, and sewerage disposal.

Water Supply The city has both brick and pipe sewers laid in four phases. In September 2020, the civic body announced that it would upgrade and renew the 50-year-old sewerage system. The pilot project for the 24x7 water supply is expected to begin in Chandigarh in May 2021, which was initially to start in September 2020 and end in March 2022. On 8 April 2021, Chandigarh Smart City Ltd (CSCL) opened the bid by the joint venture firm between SB Engineering and Tap Presstressed Pvt Ltd that quoted a value lower than the reserved price of 162 crores. The CSCL board is yet to take the final decision.

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